July 6th, 2006
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Indonesia, which has five 3G operators already, will be the third ASEAN country after Singapore and Malaysia to have WCDMA-based 3G services. We will be joining around fifty million people who already have access to this service around the world.
But it’s not clear what services the operators will offer. When the operators did 3G trials [...]
June 27th, 2006
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Indonesia has five 3G licensed-operators. Yes, you got it right: Five. The problem is, none of them is actually operating.
Telkomsel, Indonesia’s leading cellular operator, will launch commercial 3G services only later this year. Indosat and Excelcom, two other biggest GSM operators, did some trials in Jakarta last year, but we haven’t heard much from them [...]
June 23rd, 2006
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How much momentum has Asia’s much-hyped 3G deployment garnered in this year? How potential this service to boost business and economic in this region? So how about other Southeast Asia countries who also run this technology?
According to some industry observers, Third-Generation (3G) in Southeast Asia, namely Malaysia and Singapore–currently the only two markets where such [...]
June 22nd, 2006
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Publicly listed cellular phone provider PT Bakrie Telecom, which operates the CDMA-based esia mobile phone service, plans to expand its coverage to 15 cities in Banten and West Java next month in a bid to carve itself out a bigger share of the mobile phone market.
With coverage confined to only two cities — Indonesian capital [...]
June 21st, 2006
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Malaysia is one of the fastest growing 3G countries in Southeast Asia. Celcom (Malaysia) Bhd reported will expand its 3G mobile service to cover the whole country by July 15, said chief executive officer Datuk Shazalli Ramly.
Its 3G service currently covers the major urban areas, such as the capital, Shah Alam, Johor Baru, Ipoh, Alor [...]
June 6th, 2006
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Smart move in accelerating 3G services in Malaysia. All 3G operators here will have to enter into interoperability agreements to widen subscriber base and coverage. They show that cooperation much better than mere competition.
All 3G operators in Malaysia will have to enter into interoperability agreements to secure a wider subscriber base, Frost & Sullivan Asia [...]
May 28th, 2006
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France Telecom SA’s (FTE) research unit in Beijing said Friday it is assessing China’s locally developed third-generation mobile phone standard, which its parent company may consider using in Europe at a later date.
China’s Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access standard uses a different frequency spectrum for mobile-phone calls and data transfers than the other [...]
May 25th, 2006
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Saudi Telecom Company (STC) has announced the launch of 3G, having started testing the service in 2005. STC’s Al Jawal mobile operation plans to roll out the largest 3G network in the Middle East and will activate a full service including: voice and video calls, live TV and HSDPA technology, running at speeds of up [...]
May 23rd, 2006
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Sri Lanka yesterday offered third-generation (3G) mobile phone network licences to the country’s four cellular phone operators at US$5 million each. The 3G licences will allow the companies to offer high-speed voice and data transmission.
The largest mobile company in Sri Lanka, Dialog Telekom, was already carrying out 3G trials, while two other firms - Mobitel [...]
May 22nd, 2006
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SK Telecom proved Korea as the leader of third-generation (3G) mobile network technology with the kick-off of the world’s first commercial HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) service.
SK Telecom introduced today a first-ever 3.5 generation (3.5G) network HSDPA handset and announced the launching of the world’s first handset-based commercial HSDPA network. The company has named [...]
